[…] explains in her introduction, this unusual collection of verse represents “an attempt to return old women to the circle, to the continuum of women and of life” (p. viii), and its rich and convincing […]
[…] hierarchy, that of General Authority, he did serve on the Council of Fifty, which had hopes of world government. He discussed all of these activities very openly in his journals. George Smith’s careful and […]
Readers of L. Kay Gillespie’s exposition about Utah’s unforgiven should find it thought-provoking—at times, disturbingly so. The picture he paints here is of Utah’s darkest side: the deliberate brutishness and ugliness on both sides […]
In Women, Family, and Utopia, Lawrence Foster, an associate professor of Ameri can history at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, establishes two goals: to expand on his research regarding “relations between men […]
Jacob and Rachel But a little way to come to Beth-lehem, and the pains came hard upon her. She heard, “Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.”
At the baptismal Erma sings “Que grande es El,” her voice breaking, and the woman she has brought to Jesus, clothed in white on the front row, weeps.
One gunmetal day, late fall, a fat shabby robin tired of flying in her natural world, desired to swoop across our couch,
[…] step back a bit and be at least somewhat objective. Thomas E. Cheney is probably best known for the collection of Mormon folk music he compiled. In this new book he turns to his own […]
Born That Way? asks a question about the origins of homosexuality, readily answers it in the affirmative, then turns to the author’s, and the church’s, real thesis: You can change your same-sex attraction and […]
In China, in August, ghosts are released from hell for a month of fun. Late July behind the gates, ghosts start queuing up, raising their hands and swearing to the guards